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An ordinary Portuguese residential apartment block and houses on a street in Caldas da Rainha

The Certificado Energético in Portugal in 2026: A Practical Guide to the Certificate You Need Before You Sell or Let, the Mandatory Site Visit, the Ten-Year Validity, and What Registration Costs

Who has to obtain an energy certificate in Portugal and when, which transactions are exempt, why one certificate per autonomous fraction is the rule, the site visit that cannot be skipped, how long each type lasts, what registration costs, and the fines.

The Portugal Brief 18 Sep 2026

Modest terraced housing on a corner of the Bairro Social do Arco do Cego in Lisbon, with the Rua Tomas Borba street plate fixed to the painted wall.

The Tarifa Social de Energia in Portugal in 2026: A Practical Guide to the 33.8 Percent Electricity Discount, the 6,272.64 Euro Income Line, and the 6.9 kVA Condition That Quietly Disqualifies People

The one Portuguese benefit nobody applies for: the state matches your data and the discount appears on the bill. About 735,000 electricity contracts carry it. Here is who qualifies, the two contract conditions that disqualify otherwise eligible households, and what to do when it does not arrive.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

An electricity transmission pylon carrying high-voltage lines across eucalyptus woodland at Rio Maior in central Portugal, under a clear sky.

The Regulated Electricity Tariff Rises 2.7 Percent on 1 October, Turning This Year's Promised 1 Percent Increase Into 1.7

ERSE has moved the energy component of the regulated tariff by half a cent a kilowatt hour, and says the reason is the war between Iran and the United States working through gas prices into electricity. It reaches 779,000 clients directly, and the free market buys in the same wholesale market.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The Pego power station in central Portugal seen from a distance, its two cooling towers and red and white striped chimney rising behind wooded hills and a village of white houses

Two Data Centres Beside the Old Pego Coal Plant Want More Grid Capacity Than They Were Given, and the Minister Says a Decision Could Land This Year

Energy, water and environmental impact are the three tests. Abrantes gets a fourth consideration of its own, because the coal plant that closed in 2021 left behind a connection sized for it.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

An aerial view of rows of solar panels spread across dry brown farmland in southern Portugal, with a village on the ridge in the distance

Lightsource bp Dropped Its 240 Million Euro Beira Solar Plant, and Shrank the Neighbouring One by 35 Percent

The assessors counted 479 cork and holm oaks and an Iberian imperial eagle. Reworking the plant to answer that, the promoter says, stopped adding up financially.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

A Galp filling station in the Algarve under a clear blue sky, its yellow canopy over the pumps and a black and yellow Desconto banner strung along the forecourt edge.

Portugal Hands Back 9.76 Cents a Litre of Diesel Tax From Monday, and the Order Doing It Appeared in a Friday Night Gazette Supplement

Protesters marched on the prime minister's house in Espinho over fuel prices on Saturday. The night before, a portaria had already cut the fuel tax again, as it has done every week since 16 March, by exactly the extra VAT the higher price brings in.

The Portugal Brief 12 Sep 2026

Storage tanks at the Sines liquefied natural gas terminal in Portugal, one weathered and one being re-clad inside scaffolding, with green tanks behind and palms in the foreground.

Ninety-Five Percent of the Gas Portugal Burned Last Year Came Ashore at Sines, on 46 Ships, Three of Them Russian

ERSE published its 2025 technical quality report for the gas sector on Friday. Nigeria supplied half the discharge operations at Sines, the United States 43 percent and Russia the remaining 7 percent, and the Iberian blackout cost one Nigerian tanker 11 hours.

The Portugal Brief 11 Sep 2026

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